The news: Facebook users will fall for the first time this year, dropping 0.8%, a 1.4 million user decrease, to 178.3 million users, per our newly released forecast.
- The Blue App is seeing an accelerating decline in adoption among younger social network users, with those under 25, already a small and shrinking share of its overall user base, continuing to fall off the platform or fail to adopt it at all.
- By next year, fewer than 15% of Facebook users will be under 25.
- The platform’s user base among age groups except those 65 and over will be either stagnant or shrinking—though this decline will stay gradual.